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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsGeorge Frisbie HOAR
(1826-1904)
Senate Years of Service:
1877-1904Party: RepublicanHOAR, George Frisbie,
(grandson of Roger Sherman, son of Samuel Hoar, brother of Ebenezer
Rockwood Hoar, father of Rockwood Hoar, and uncle of Sherman Hoar),
a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Concord,
Mass., August 29, 1826; attended Concord Academy; graduated from
Harvard University in 1846 and from the Harvard Law School in 1849;
admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Worcester,
Mass.; elected to the State house of representatives in 1852;
elected to the State senate in 1857; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1869-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876;
one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in
1876 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against William W.
Belknap; appointed a member of the Electoral Commission created by
act of Congress to decide the contests in various States in the
presidential election of 1876; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate in 1877; reelected in 1883, 1889, 1895, and
1901 and served from March 4, 1877, until his death in Worcester,
Mass., September 30, 1904; chairman, Committee on Privileges and
Elections (Forty-seventh through Fifty-second Congresses),
Committee on the Judiciary (Fifty-second Congress, Fifty-fourth
through Fifty-eighth Congresses), Committee on the Library
(Fifty-second Congress); overseer of Harvard University 1874-1880
and from 1896 until his death; Regent of the Smithsonian for many
years; interment in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Hoar, George F. Autobiography of Seventy
Years. 2 vols., New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1903; Welch,
Richard E., Jr. George F. Hoar and the Half-Breed
Republicans. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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